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Brexit is being blamed for everything from collapsing high street sales (they seem to be recovering) to job losses in the banking industry and elsewhere (this is a variation on the kitchen sink school of management). Out of home giant ...

April 27, 2016Comments Off on Transport for London creative heads to VCCP

Transport for London, whose remit includes the the various transport services run in the capital by the Greater London Authority and various Met Police and Fire Service initiatives, is believed to have appointed VCCP to handle its ad account. The ...

March 17, 2016Comments Off on Exterion sees off Decaux to retain Tube poster contract

Exterion Media, formerly CBS Outdoor, has retained the London Underground, Crossrail, DLR and London Overground outdoor advertising contract, said to be the largest such contract in the world with a value of £150m annually. Exterion beat off strong competition from ...

February 11, 2016Comments Off on Decaux tightens grip on London OOH market with Kensington bus shelters award

French-owned out of home giant JC Decaux has tightened its grip on the London market (about half the UK total) with the award of Kensington and Chelsea’s bus shelter advertising contract. The 15-year contract was previously held by Clear Channel ...

Transport for London’s lucrative bus shelter and street furniture out of home advertising contract is believed to have been wrested from incumbent Clear Channel by French OOH giant JC Decaux. The business, which TFL values at more than £400m for ...

On Saturday I witnessed one of those magnificent moments that seem so typically British. I found a spot on the route for the Olympic men’s road race close to the finish at the bottom of Hyde Park. As the tail ...

September 7, 2011Comments Off on How CBS Outdoor got the £1.5bn contract of the decade completely wrong

CBS Outdoor is suing London Underground owner Transport for London over its alleged mismanagement of the £1.5bn tube advertising contract CBS ‘won’ in 2006. Among the things CBS failed to anticipate were upgrading engineering works for the ageing system, modernisation ...

August 26, 2011Comments Off on CBS Outdoor and London Underground square up for court battle over Tube ad costs

Back in 2006 (two years before the recession struck in the UK and elsewhere) CBS outdoor signed an eight and a half year deal with London Underground to instal digital screens in flagship Tube stations like Oxford Circus. In return ...

May 4, 2011Comments Off on CBS puts for sale sign on outdoor, banks on Olympics boost

Of course the second is only relevant if the first, selling the outdoor business, doesn’t happen. CBS CEO Les Moonves said last night that he hadn’t yet had a call from French outdoor giant JC Decaux wanting to buy the ...